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BadBrad
May 10, 2013Aspirant
Readynas Duo file corruption question
I assume the Duo (V1 and v2) both use Raid 1 for mirror the drives. My question is does the Duo provide any protection where a file on one drive becomes corrupt but not on the other drive? I Know th...
StephenB
May 10, 2013Guru - Experienced User
Normally the RAID redundancy kicks in when a read fails. RAID doesn't help if the two corresponding sectors can both be read, but do not match. The system has no way to tell which is correct (and of course they might both be wrong).
What is returned in that case depends on the RAID implementation. I suspect the first drive wins in the case of the Duo, but am not sure.
What is returned in that case depends on the RAID implementation. I suspect the first drive wins in the case of the Duo, but am not sure.
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